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v TOILET GLASS. No. 349,333. Patented Sept. 21, 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACQUES BAY, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

TOI LET-GLASS.

EPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,333, datedSeptember 21,1886.

Application filed June 1, 1886. Serial No. 203,741. (No model.) Patentedin France October 16, 1885, No, 171,703; in Belgium November 5, 1885,No. 70.747, and in England November 9, 1885, N0.13,563.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACQUES BAY, a citizen of France, residing in thecity of Paris, in the French Republic, have invented new and usefnlImprovements in Triple Toilet-Glasses for Showing the Back of the Head,(for which I have obtained a patent in Great Britain, N 0. 13,563,hearing date November 9, 1885; in France, No. 171,703, dated October 16,1885, and in Belgium, No. 70,747, dated November 5, 1885,) of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of this invention is to remedy a defect in the constructionof toilet-glasses for showing the back of the head. The improvementsrelate to those glasses consisting of a central and two lateral mirrors,the drawback to their employment being the Want of a simple method ofextending the side glasses from the central one and placing them at anappropriate angle. To render such glasses thoroughly effective it isimperative that they should be capable of extension at the least of fromforty-five to forty-eight centimeters. This is effected inthe followingmanner, without either complication of parts or increase in thedimensions of the-glass. The side glasses are movable, and being of thesame dimensions as the central one fold over it, so that the threecombined are of equal proportions and form a neat and compact ensemblewhen not required for use. In order that the side glasses may bearranged in any desired posishows a mirror of the description hereinreclosed.

ferred to before the side glasses are separated or drawn out from thecenter glass. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 shows the mirror Fig.4. is a plan of Fig. 3. Figs. 5 and 6 are an elevation and plan of themirror with the side glasses extended or drawn out to the full. Fig. 7is a plan of a modification of the invention; Figs. 8 and 9 sectionalface and plan views, respectively, of the joint between the sliding rodand the side glass.

The center glass, at, of curvilinear or rectilinear form is surroundedby a wooden frame; or it may be metal or composition, and may beornamented in any desired fashion. Near the corners (top and bottom) ofthe central glass are soldered or otherwise fixed the guides in whichthe slides attached to the movable glasses are drawn in or out forregulating the position of the side glasses. The movable side glasses, 9g, are framed in any convenient manner and of such dimensions that whennot in use the three glasses can be folded up together. The verticaledgesinside, c f, are provided with sockets h h i i, to which theball-joints k kl l are connected, as well as to the horizontal rods m ma 11. These joints are intercepted by the arms at" m n a of suitablelength. The shafts or rods m 'n, which are tubular, slide in the guides0 0 and r r. The rods m and a, which are or are not tubular, sliderespectively in the guides 1) and q.

The glasses {1 g are prevented becoming detached from the center one byfixing a stop, boss, or some other equivalent at the end of m. In orderto limit the pivoting of the glasses 9 g, the sockets h h z i arenotched, as shown by the Figs. 8 and 9 at x.

The glasses 9 g are made to become stationary in any desired position bycausing the shaft to which the joints are connected to produce a certainamount of friction and elasticity. Constructed in this manner thetoilet-glass, when required for use, can be completely extended by oneor other of the following methods: First, the glass g can he slid by itsrods as far as the stop 8 on the guide 0, and then do the same for theother glass, 9; secondly, both glasses 9 y can be simultaneouslyuncovered from the central glass, a, and then be drawn out on theirrespective slides and guides.

The advantages of this construction over those in present use havealready been remarked, the essential fcature of the invention being theoutstretching and placing of the side glasses at any desired angle wherefor the time being they are stationary.

Slight modifications-such as the substitution of jointed shafts v o o 0o 0, as shown by Fig. 7 for the rods sliding in hollow tubes, &e., asalready deseribed lnaybe made with out departing from the principle.

I do not claim sliding one section which carrie; a hinged wing into acentral section, as Shown in Patent No. 227,568; nor do I claim hingingside mirrors to a central mirror, as in Patent No. 324,227.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

1. The combination of the central mirror, (1, having loops 0, 0, 1),11,1. and r, with the side sliding hollow rods m and 11, and the joints20 that connect said rods to the side glasses, substanliall as hereinshown and described.

JACQUES BAY. \Vi tnesscs:

Ron'r. M. Hoornn, Aimnoxsn BLETRY.

